New Suburban Wasteland and Future Videos
Added 2021-03-23 15:34:33 +0000 UTCHello all! After a year-long hiatus, we're back with some more Suburban Wasteland content, this time about the deleterious effects of suburban upbringings on children.
This one was quite a doozy: I initially planned it to be split in half between children and seniors, but there turned out to be so much research just about kids that it cannibalized the other half of the video.
This video is currently unlisted on YouTube, with the link available to all y'all exclusively for the next week. I will make it publicly available on the 29th, but until then it's all yours.
Additionally, I'm currently planning my next video and thought I'd ask all of you for feedback on what you'd like to see. I have a few potential topics in mind but I'm also interested in other ideas any of you my have. The current prospective topics:
- A first episode of an “Ancient Cities” series where we discuss what we know about ancient urbanism in Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, etc. and what anthropology and archaeology from those sites can tell us about human society historically and today.
- A video about broken windows policing and the role of “order maintenance” in cities today, generally at the expense of the poor, minorities, homeless, etc.
- A follow-up to the latest video in which I would discuss how to best build cities for children, focused more on concrete examples in Europe and East Asia instead of the usual academic paper spam.
Let me know what you think in the comments on this post!
Comments
I'm really excited to hear about the mesopotamia indus river valley one!
Misuvva
2021-04-09 01:11:09 +0000 UTCThis was really good! I can confirm a lot of this having grown up in a post WW2 suburb from the 90's until 2012. I was lucky to have a bit more freedom than some of the kids I knew growing up, but I had a really lonely childhood wrought with depression and other extreme mental health issues, and I believe most of it originated from my environment and lack of interaction, as most of it didn't follow me into adulthood. I struggled to make friends as the only interaction I had with other kids was at school, and when you're also isolated at school because of bullying and stress, it doesn't exactly make for a good social atmosphere . I noticed here in Portland,Oregon, while there are some pretty terrible areas for walking, even in the grid, many kids within the central city and in the older pre-WW2 suburbs with adequate space for pedestrians walk to school or even take the bus. The transit agency even adds buses specifically to their routes to accommodate the influx of kids. On top of that, there are a bunch of outdoor programs here that often bring kids out into nature to teach about the local ecology while socializing with other kids. This is a major contrast to how I grew up in California. It's not perfect, and there's plenty of work to do here, but at least it wouldn't be like starting from scratch in, say, California's central valley. I'm really loving these videos. Keep up the great work.
Donovan Seymour
2021-03-30 09:05:45 +0000 UTCThose are all really interesting topics for future vids. I'd say the second topic on broken windows, though an anthropological video sounds really great as a runner up.
LegalizeRanch
2021-03-24 03:03:10 +0000 UTCThat was stellar, as with the rest of your videos. The way you transitioned from the problem to the european solution was really effective. I think I'd be interested in a video on the municipal changes that people could champion to move towards those european solutions. My family comes from Freiburg, DE, which I believe is the bicycle capital of Germany - I think the history of how that city stopped it's 'suburbanization' or ones like it would be a great way to highlight the practical changes individuals can champion.
Nikolas Christen
2021-03-23 20:57:22 +0000 UTCAwesome Eco-Gecko! Looking forward to seeing this. For the next one, I would be interested in the third topic - cities for children. I grew up in a kind of suburban town, but everything was walking distance though not very shaded, which is a planning crime in a very hot country. I remember walking back home from pre-school, alone, at the age of 5.
Dori
2021-03-23 16:04:55 +0000 UTCI super look forward to videos about crime policy. Your video style is very helpful and pedagogic.
Mikael Eriksson
2021-03-23 16:01:14 +0000 UTCOh, sweet. I'm looking forward to this one!
Jason
2021-03-23 15:37:16 +0000 UTC
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